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Battalion Staff
Rape is one of the fastest
[rowing violent crimes in the
ountry and many feel that it
nay be a defenseless crime.
In the program presented by
he Department of Student
Affairs Tuesday, “Rape: It Can
appen To You,” a panel of
ivomen discussed three aspects
)f the violent crime — preven-
lon, defense and aftermath.
To best avoid attack, Kabrina
Reisig, a member of the Univer-
i Police Department, said one
ihould: walk with confidence, be
iwareof the people around you
and the situations you find your-
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prevention, panel says
self in and know what to do and
where to go if an attack is
attempted.
She recommended that stu
dents call the police depart
ment’s escort service if they must
walk from a distant parking lot
to their dorm room. A police car
will meet students in the parking
lot and walk them back to their
dorm rooms if called before-
hand.
The type of defense used
against an attacker may depend
on the rapist himself, Sherry
Ackles, a resident advisor here
said. She said there are three
types of rapists.
The first type is the power
rapist who feels he must domin
ate women in order to overcome
a sense of inadequacy. The
second is the angry rapist who
holds women responsible for ev
erything wrong in his life. He
expresses his hatred by degrad
ing and humiliating women.
The third type is the sadistic rap
ist. This man goes out with the
intent to kill.
Ackles advocated the active
defense of using your body or a
weapon over the passive
approach of using the mind in
stead of the body — for all types
of rape.
After a rape, Dr. Kerry Hope,
a psychologist with the Student
Counseling Service, said the first
and most important thing to do
is seek medical attention.
“Do not bathe, douche, wash
your hands, change clothes or
comb your hair, ” she said. “Go
to the Health Center, they know
what to do.”
She said that a member of the
counseling service is on call at
the Health Center 24 hours a
day and is called immediately
when a rape victim comes in.
She also said that awareness is
the main deterrent to rape.
“Being a little paranoid is
healthy,” she said. “I think most
of us are not quite paranoid
enough.”
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Ag essay wins award
from staff and wire reports
Former U.S. Agriculture Sec
retary Orville Freeman and a co
author received the top Mitchell
award of $30,000 for an essay
presenting methods industrial
ized countries can use to prom
ote agricultural improvements
in Third World nations.
Mitchell awards totalling
$100,000 were presented to 14
authors Sunday to begin the
four-day Woodlands Confer
ence on Sustainable Societies.
Texas A&M University Presi
dent Frank Vandiver spoke at
the conference.
The essay awards were
f ounded by George Mitchell and
his wife, Cynthia. Mitchell gra
duated from Texas A&M in
1940 with honors in petroleum
engineering. He is the founder
and chairman of the Mitchell
Energy and Development Corp.
Mitchell donated the land for
the Texas A&M at Galveston
campus and also serves as the
general chairman of the Target
2000 committee, a committee
formed to study where Texas
A&M should and will be in the
year 2000.
Freeman and Ruth Karen, an
expert on the corporation’s role
in society, said corporations in
industrialized countries can
bring about agricultural im
provements in undeveloped na
tions by working directly with
small farmers, extending credit,
teaching new agricultural tech-
niques and providing marketing
assistance.
The authors maintain that
the key to significant agricultu
ral improvement in the Third
World is the family farm, not the
large, collection units estab
lished in many countries.
The conference is the fourth
sponsored by Mitchell Energy
and Development Corp. and will
focus on what business can do to
help sustain the world’s
societies.
Speakers include: S. Bruce
Smart, chairman of the Con
tinental Group; former Agricul
ture Secretary Bob Bergland;
Dr. Wolf Hafele, director of
West Germany’s Nuclear Re
search center; David Kinnerse-
ly, a senior adviser to Britian’s
National Water Council; and
Lin Zi Xin, a development policy
planner for China.
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Group to study effects
of ultrasound scanning
by David Johnson
Battalion Staff
A Texas A&M professor is
part of a research team that is
studying possibly harmful side
effects from ultrasound scan
ning, which is used to produce
images of body organs by the
bouncing of high frequency
sound waves.
Dr. David Gross, associate
professor of veterinary physiol
ogy and pharmacology, is
attempting to determine the
safety of ultrasound proce
dures. He is collaborating with
Dr. Douglas Miller, a physicist
from the University of Ver
mont, and Dr. A.R. Williams, a
biophysicist from the University
pf Manchester, England.
Ultrasound commonly is
used to detect birth defects,
heart murmurs and hardening
of the arteries by measuring the
echo from high frequency
sound waves. It is used in addi
tion to X-rays and ainneocente-
sis or CAT’ scans to diagnose
problems that those methods
are unable to detect. Ultrasound
can produce pictures of organs
(and tissues which are too soft to
absorb X-rays. In addition,
ultrasound is a quick and pain
less procedure that allows for
faster diagnosis in critical cases.
Because of its apparent lack
of side effects, ultrasound is con
sidered safe for use in cases
where other diagnostic techni-
ques might be harmful. For pre
gnant women, ultrasound can
he a time-saving and safer pro
cess for determining fetal posi
tion and growth.
Although ultrasound has no
known harmful effects on hu
mans, Gross said, scientists have
confirmed that large doses of
ultrasound waves could create
microscopic bubbles in the
bloodstream causing an embol
ism which blocks blood flowing
into the heart.
Gross said the group’s experi
ments will focus on finding the
bubbles, if there are any, in the
blood stream and determining
how dangerous they are.
The research project, which is
in its preliminary stages, is being
funded by a $347,936 grant
from the National Institute of
Health. Gross said the funds,
which took over a year to get, are
being used to build unique
equipment such as a measuring
device developed by Miller for
the experiment.
Gross said he expects enough
results over the three-year ex
periment period tojustify furth
er funding.
“In fact, you generally raise
more questions as you go along
than you find answers,” he said.
Gross said the group will meet
in mid-December to begin the
experiment and will he together
until mid-February. They are
planning to meet about three
months a year during the three-
year period and longer if the ex
periment’s funding is renewed.
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